Ollie Riches
Trade Tools (Equity Derivatives), Senior Software Developer
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOllie Riches is a senior .NET software developer with 14+ years building high-performance WPF/UIs and enterprise tooling for tier-1 investment banks and financial services. He specialises in modernising legacy valuation and trading systems—most recently porting multi-million‑point Excel/Access fund valuation workflows to a .NET 6/7 WPF app that cut run-times from minutes to under 30 seconds and stabilized EOD processes. Comfortable across front- and back-end stacks, he applies reactive patterns, CI/CD and telemetry to deliver resilient, non-blocking UIs and fast feedback loops. He has repeatedly introduced professional engineering practices (TeamCity, package management, continuous testing) to raise quality and delivery cadence. A London-based consultant and active open-source maintainer, his NuGet contributions have amassed over one million downloads, reflecting practical libraries used across the ecosystem.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of BirminghamElectronic Computer Systems, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Electronic Computer Systems, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at The University of Salford
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Github Skills (65)
xaml10
testing10
windows10
datagrid10
wpf10
dotnet10
rest10
reactive-programming10
nlog10
windows-desktop10
winui10
mvvm10
autofac10
windows-ui10
csharp10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
oriches/faker-cs
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
C# port of the Ruby Faker gem (http://faker.rubyforge.org/)
Contributions:130 commits, 18 PRs, 104 pushes in 5 years 1 month
csharprubychsarpdotnet-frameworktesting
oriches/Simple.Wpf.Template
Sep 2014 - Jun 2022
template for creating an MVVM based WPF application using Autofac, NLog & Rx
Contributions:242 commits, 33 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 10 months
autofacmvvmnlogwpfcsharp
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